Goichi Suda

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Goichi Suda, aka 'Suda51', is president of Grasshopper Manufacture. His pseudonym, Suda51, is a play on words in the Japanese language. In Japanese, the word 'goichi' can be split in to 'go' 'ichi', 'go' meaning 5 and 'ichi' meaning 1. 'go ichi' in Japanese is translated to English as 'five one'. Therefore, in Japanese, 'Suda51' is spoken 'Suda Goichi', following the tradition in Japan to put a person's surname before their first name. In Japanese language, 'Suda51' is simply an abbreviated way of writing Goichi Suda's full name in Japanese form.

Titles

Suda51 has been involved with the creation of the following titles:

• Michican (PlayStation 2)
• Killer7
• Contact (Nintendo DS)
• No More Heroes (Wii)
• Kurayami (PlayStation 3)

Suda51 is currently known to be involved in the following projects:

• The Silver Case (DS), a remake of The Silver Case (PlayStation) for the Nintendo DS
• Snatchers (was known as Project S), based on Hideo Kojima's game of the same title. This project is actually a series of projects based on Kojima's previous work. (reference)

Suda51 announced at GDC 2007 that Grasshopper Manufacture is working on two additional Wii titles, which have yet to be publically named.

References

• Goichi Suda spoke at the GO3 conference in Australia on April 18th 2007. Gamasutra has a transcript of this speech.

Trivia

• Goichi Suda has had previous jobs as an undertaker and an estate agent (reference)